Posted: Wed May 15, 2013 11:39 am Post subject: Streaming from 4od ? will not work

Hi , Im using the latest firefox and flash plugin and i cant seem to watch any videos from 40d it just continues loading and nothing ever happens .
I have been reading on google and they say its something to do with hal ?
As no one uses hal anymore can anyone explan to me why this will not work or what the soloution is to fix it ?

Done a bit more digging on this one, basically flash needs HAL to show DRM-protected videos. And Adobe have no plans to change that. There is a similar topic here: Amazon Instant Video and hal which explains how to install hal from an overlay.

Interesting, I wonder how the likes of BBC Iplayer and ITV player work, as far as I know they both use flash?

Interesting, I wonder how the likes of BBC Iplayer and ITV player work, as far as I know they both use flash?

As for BBC iPlayer it doesn't use DRM unless you download the programmes with iPlayer Desktop, but that's only available for Windows and Macs, no idea about the ITV one._________________Search | Read | Answer | Report | Strip

This has been going on for a while, and like somebody pointed out, it has to do with DRM. The last time I checked, Channel 5 had the same "issue". The real fix is for the media companies really, so not much to do. Personally, I switched to my PS3 for most things.

Done a bit more digging on this one, basically flash needs HAL to show DRM-protected videos. And Adobe have no plans to change that. There is a similar topic here: Amazon Instant Video and hal which explains how to install hal from an overlay.

According to the Amazon topic above this should work with media-libs/hal-flash which has been added to the Portage tree, but I haven't tried it yet._________________Search | Read | Answer | Report | Strip